Interview transcripts released in case of Joshua Gouker

Some late court filings in the murder case against a father and his teenage son include a police interview conducted after the body of victim Trey Zwicker was discovered in May 2011.

Suspect Joshua Gouker was interviewed by police hours after his stepson's body was discovered.

As a deputy coroner was investigating the scene behind Liberty High School on May 11, 2011, a homicide detective was interviewing Gouker in his police car.

"This is where they all go; this is where they all get high. This is where all the kids go and smoke cigarettes and weed," Gouker told the detective.

Gouker was talking about the area where the badly beaten body of 14-year-old Zwicker was found.

Gouker told an investigator at the scene he last saw Zwicker around 10:30 the night before.

The 42-year-old originally blamed the slaying on kids at the Bridgewood Apartments on Indian Trail

"These kids shot up this house over here a few weeks ago, man, with a gun. These are not normal," Gouker said, "Yeah, I mean, these kids are not playing."

Weeks later, Gouker pointed the finger at his son, Josh Young, telling police Young beat Zwicker with a baseball bat.

In a just-released police interview, fellow prison inmate Ronnie Jones said, "Exactly words came out of his mouth was, 'Josh, little Josh, told me, "Dad, I want to kill him." He was smoking a joint and he took a hit of the joint. And he (Gouker) said, 'Well, don't get caught,' and he laughs.'"

Jones told the detective Gouker said Young wanted to kill Zwicker because Zwicker told on him for killing the neighbor's German shepherd. Jones said Zwicker's mother, Young's stepmother, scolded Young and took away his phone.

When Gouker was arraigned on a murder charge last August, his story changed again.

He told the judge he killed Zwicker himself.

Judge Barry Willett still has to decide what sections of the inmate interview and other police interviews will be allowed as evidence in this case.

The trial is scheduled for July 29.

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